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Our AI supercomputer will be world’s fastest this year: Meta
San Francisco : Meta (formerly Facebook) has built an AI supercomputer that, it claims, will be the fastest in the world when it's fully ready in mid-2022.Called the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), the machine is already being used by Meta…
Facebook declined to spin-off its Workplace app as $1bn unicorn
San Francisco : Facebook (before it was rebrandeded as Meta) was approached by venture capitalists to spin off its Workplace app and make it a new company valued at over $1 billion. But Facebook declined.Workplace, Facebook's collaboration…
Meta employees will need Covid booster jabs to return to office
San Francisco : Meta (formerly Facebook) has said that employees who have received Covid booster jabs will only be allowed to enter office premises when it finally reopens.Meta has already said that employees in the US would have to be…
Google, Facebook face $235 mn fine in France over cookie tracking
San Francisco : Google and Facebook are facing a combined $235 million fine for cookie tracking in France, the media reported.According to a report in Politico citing a document, the French watchdog Commission Nationale de I'informatique et…
Russia fines Google, Meta for failure to delete banned content
Moscow/San Francisco : A Russian court has fined Google $98 million for its alleged failure to remove content that is considered illegal in the country.A Moscow court also slapped a $27 million fine on Meta (formerly Facebook) over its…
Meta brings signal language interpreters for Portal video calls
San Francisco : Meta (formerly Facebook) has added video relay services (VRS) to its Portal video calling devices, to bring English or Spanish sign language interpreters into video conversations.To bring this new feature social media giant…
Facebook India seeks 14-day extension from Delhi Assembly over summon
New Delhi : Facebook India has sought a 14-day extension to appear before the Delhi Assembly's Committee on Peace and Harmony, which had summoned the social media giant to send its senior representative to testify on November 2 over the…
Facebook to pay French publishers for reusing their content
New Delhi : As pressure mounts on social media platforms to pay news publishers for using their content, Facebook has reached a multi-year pact to pay French publishers for resharing their content on its platforms.The social network will…
Facebook plans to rebrand company with new name: Report
San Francisco : Social media giant Facebook is reportedly planning to rebrand the company with a new name that focuses on the metaverse.According to a source with direct knowledge of the matter, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg is…
How Facebook outage wreaked havoc on the global ad empire
New Delhi : Facebook reported a 47 per cent (year-over-year) increase in ad revenue amounting to $28 billion in the second quarter (Q2) this year. The massive outage that left the entire family of Facebook apps down for several hours on a…